Unit
4
Reading
Matching the activities with the correct pictures
Directing the traffic
Repairing house
Teaching the poor children
Donating blood
What kind of work are they doing?
Volunteer
work
Vocabulary
volunteer (V, N)
voluntary (Adj)
voluntarily (Adv)
2. mow (V)
3. handicapped (adj)
4. remote (adj)

Task 1: The word volunteer appears in the passage in different parts or speech. Use an appropriate form of the word volunteer to complete each the following sentences .
1.when she retired, she did a lot of ………….service for the Red Cross
2.She was not fired .She left the company…….
3. She was some ……………to clean up the kitchen
4. Last month the company……………..to donate fifty trucks to help the flooded areas .
voluntary
voluntarily
volunteers
volunteered
Task2
Choose the best answer from A,B,C, or D for each of the following sentences.
1. Volunteers usually help those who are sick or
old in their homes by ………………………..
mowing the lawns, doing shopping and cleaning up
their houses
cooking, sewing or washing their clothes
telling them stories, and singing and dancing for them
taking them to baseball games
2.Big Brothers is …………………………………….
the name of a club
a home for children
the name of the film
An organisation for boys who no longer have father
3.Most of the boys’ and girls’clubs use many high school
and college students as volunteers because they………
have a lot of free time
Can understand the problems of younger boys&girls
know how to do the work
are good at playing games
4. Volunteers believe that………………………………
in order to make others happy,
they have to be unhappy
the happiest people are those
who make themselves happy
the happiest people are those
who are young and healthy
brining happiness to others makes
them the happiest people
5.The best title for the passage is …………………….
Taking care of others
Voluntary work in the United States
Volunteers :The Happiest people in the World
Helping old and sick people in the United States
Task 3: Answer the questions
1.They read books to the people there, play games with them or listen to their problems.
2. They give care and comfort to them and help them to overcome their difficulties.
3. They volunteer to work in remote or mountainous areas.
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3
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Task 4

Talking about some kinds of volunteer work that you are going to join next summer
Helping people in mountainous areas
Helping old or sick people
Helping disadvantaged or handicapped children
Taking part in directing the traffic